Wilborn v. Department of Health and Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 597 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Doe v. Chao Secretary of Labor (2004), Hudson v. Reno (1997)
21 federal appellate · 9 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on United Families of America v. Kendrick · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive · Chan v. Korean Air Lines, Ltd. · Jones v. Union Pacific Railroad
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either by committing the act without grounds for believing it to be lawful, or flagrantly disregarding others' rights under the [Privacy] Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wilborn v. Dep't of Health & Human Services, 49 F.3d 597 , 600 (9th Cir.1995). The Act states: No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains. 4 The text of that section, entitled”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Privacy Act applies to a situation where an agency official uses the government’s sophisticated information collecting methods to acquire personal information for inclusion in a record, and then discloses that information in an unauthorized fashion without actually physically retrieving it from the record system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.